From playing gigs with her acoustic bluegrass band Masontown to serving as associate concertmaster of the Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra for six years, Padilla — also a classical violinist — remains ...

LaVern Johnson has been running Lyons' Red Rock Rambler’s square-dancing club since she fell in love with the dance in 1958. Now, shortly before her 92nd birthday, Johnson will step back from the club ...

BRECKSVILLE, Ohio -- Square dancing developed long ago from a mix of English country dances and African-American social dances, with communities getting together in what were originally intended as ...

On the first day of the 2023 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the Ozark Highballers sat in a semicircle on the Pickin’ Parlor stage, their hands hovering over the instruments as they waited for the cue ...

I have long had a passion for dance, and in these past few decades — square dance. This past month, I thought of trying something a bit different, and attended a camping-squares dance event. Let me ...

It’s Sunday evening and dozens of people are ping-ponging around the room at Berkeley’s Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center. It’s the end of a three-day traveling music festival called “Dare to Be ...

The traditional couples dance is making a post-COVID comeback, just in time for winter barn dances and community socials. Cowboy boots not required. Though COVID took a toll on square dancing, it’s ...

The tradition of good square dancing continued on Saturday, April 25 at the annual Vankleek Hill Square Dance Competition.